Release notes

This is the first beta for the 2.6 series, leading up to a 2.6.0 release in August 2012.

This release includes ssl certificates verification from the urllib-based http implementation turned on by default, fixes some UI issues around colocated branches, documentation fixes and more.

This release includes all bugs fixed in previous series known at the time of this release.

Beta releases are suitable for everyday use but may cause some incompatibilities with plugins. Some plugins may need small updates to work with 2.6b1.

Changelog

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External Compatibility Breaks
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None.

Improvements
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* Access to HTTPS URLs now uses the urrllib implementation by default.
For the old pycurl-based implementation, specify ``https+pycurl://`` as
the URL scheme when accessing a HTTPS location.
(Jelmer Vernooij, #125055)

* ``Tree.path2id`` now once again accepts a list of path elements
in addition to a path. (Jelmer Vernooij)

* Turn config option expansion on by default. The only options for which
this should be disabled are templates which should already have used
conf.get(option, expand=False) or conf.get_user_option(option,
expand=False). (Vincent Ladeuil)